On learn­ing difficult things

So8res11 Nov 2013 23:35 UTC
206 points
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Wait vs In­ter­rupt Culture

Benquo27 Nov 2013 15:38 UTC
126 points
72 comments3 min readLW link

2013 Less Wrong Cen­sus/​Survey

Scott Alexander22 Nov 2013 9:26 UTC
112 points
620 comments2 min readLW link

Yes, Virginia, You Can Be 99.99% (Or More!) Cer­tain That 53 Is Prime

ChrisHallquist7 Nov 2013 7:45 UTC
95 points
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I no­tice that I am con­fused about Iden­tity and Resurrection

ialdabaoth14 Nov 2013 20:38 UTC
65 points
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A di­a­gram for a sim­ple two-player game

Paul Crowley10 Nov 2013 8:59 UTC
56 points
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No Univer­sally Com­pel­ling Ar­gu­ments in Math or Science

ChrisHallquist5 Nov 2013 3:32 UTC
49 points
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The dan­gers of zero and one

PhilGoetz21 Nov 2013 12:21 UTC
48 points
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2013 Cen­sus/​Sur­vey: call for changes and additions

Scott Alexander5 Nov 2013 3:10 UTC
47 points
155 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Com­putabil­ity and Logic

So8res21 Nov 2013 13:52 UTC
44 points
26 comments13 min readLW link

[link] Psy­chol­o­gists strike a blow for reproducibility

Pablo28 Nov 2013 5:26 UTC
42 points
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Lone Ge­nius Bias and Re­turns on Ad­di­tional Researchers

ChrisHallquist1 Nov 2013 0:38 UTC
37 points
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Aca­demic Cliques

ChrisHallquist8 Nov 2013 4:27 UTC
35 points
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Hal­loween thread—ra­tio­nal­ist’s hor­rors.

wwa1 Nov 2013 22:07 UTC
35 points
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Help the Brain Preser­va­tion Foundation

aurellem13 Nov 2013 21:18 UTC
34 points
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Notic­ing some­thing com­pletely ab­surd about yourself

diegocaleiro26 Nov 2013 19:24 UTC
32 points
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From Philos­o­phy to Math to Engineering

lukeprog4 Nov 2013 15:43 UTC
32 points
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The Ineffi­ciency of The­o­ret­i­cal Discovery

lukeprog3 Nov 2013 21:26 UTC
30 points
109 comments2 min readLW link

LessWrong Study Hall will be pass­word-protected

tkadlubo13 Nov 2013 20:38 UTC
30 points
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Main­stream Episte­mol­ogy for LessWrong, Part 1: Feld­man on Evidentialism

ChrisHallquist16 Nov 2013 16:16 UTC
30 points
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Self-serv­ing meta: Who­ever keeps block-down­vot­ing me, is there some way to ne­go­ti­ate peace?

ialdabaoth16 Nov 2013 4:35 UTC
28 points
283 comments1 min readLW link

Hap­piness and Pro­duc­tivity. Liv­ing Alone. Liv­ing with Friends. Liv­ing with Fam­ily.

diegocaleiro19 Nov 2013 1:35 UTC
27 points
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Quan­tum ver­sus log­i­cal bombs

Stuart_Armstrong17 Nov 2013 15:14 UTC
27 points
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MIRI course list study pairs

Adele_L12 Nov 2013 5:44 UTC
26 points
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A model of AI development

lukeprog28 Nov 2013 13:48 UTC
26 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Kid­nap­ping and the game of Chicken

Manfred3 Nov 2013 6:29 UTC
23 points
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On Wal­mart, And Who Bears Re­spon­si­bil­ity For the Poor

ChrisHallquist27 Nov 2013 5:08 UTC
23 points
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Meetup: Some­where you do not live even close to

Metus7 Nov 2013 11:17 UTC
23 points
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Effec­tive Altru­ism and Cry­on­ics, Con­test Results

lsparrish19 Nov 2013 17:06 UTC
22 points
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The Witch­ing Hour

Scott Alexander3 Nov 2013 7:07 UTC
22 points
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How to have high-value conversations

Vika13 Nov 2013 3:39 UTC
21 points
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Re­duced im­pact AI: no back channels

Stuart_Armstrong11 Nov 2013 14:55 UTC
21 points
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Lon­don LW CoZE ex­er­cise report

philh19 Nov 2013 0:34 UTC
21 points
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[Link] Lost and Found

[deleted]1 Nov 2013 14:26 UTC
20 points
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Prob­a­bil­ity and rad­i­cal uncertainty

David_Chapman23 Nov 2013 22:34 UTC
19 points
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The Evolu­tion­ary Heuris­tic and Ra­tion­al­ity Techniques

ChrisHallquist10 Nov 2013 7:30 UTC
19 points
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Non-stan­dard cryo ideas

DataPacRat9 Nov 2013 17:42 UTC
17 points
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What can we learn from freema­sonry?

Gunnar_Zarncke24 Nov 2013 15:18 UTC
17 points
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Be Skep­ti­cal of Cor­re­la­tional Studies

jefftk20 Nov 2013 22:19 UTC
17 points
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Buy­ing Debt as Effec­tive Altru­ism?

aarongertler13 Nov 2013 6:09 UTC
17 points
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The Restora­tion of William: the skele­ton of a short story about re­s­ur­rec­tion and identity

AlanCrowe15 Nov 2013 17:59 UTC
15 points
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How to choose a coun­try/​city?

joaolkf2 Nov 2013 1:48 UTC
15 points
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Re­search on un­con­scious vi­sual processing

passive_fist15 Nov 2013 22:54 UTC
15 points
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A Work­flow with Spaced Repetition

Emile3 Nov 2013 15:58 UTC
13 points
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The Ape Con­straint dis­cus­sion meet­ing.

Douglas_Reay28 Nov 2013 11:22 UTC
12 points
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Some thoughts on re­la­tions be­tween ma­jor eth­i­cal systems

[deleted]24 Nov 2013 21:32 UTC
11 points
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How do you tell proto-sci­ence from pseudo-sci­ence?

DataPacRat27 Nov 2013 19:15 UTC
11 points
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CRISPR opens up new ge­netic en­g­ineer­ing potential

Jordan19 Nov 2013 0:56 UTC
11 points
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[Link] Bet Your Friends to Be More Right

katydee8 Nov 2013 21:12 UTC
11 points
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Brain Preser­va­tion Foun­da­tion ask me any­thing on Red­dit 7:00PM EST Thurs­day Nov 21

aurellem20 Nov 2013 21:24 UTC
11 points
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